Coaches, Mentors & Consultants

After taking the course and adding these great new tools and ideas to your professional development plan, you may still want to dive deeper into a particular area or special topic. Maybe there's more you'd like to talk about with a particular mentor or coach, or maybe you'd like some one-on-one coaching or mentoring that could help you get to the next level? Scroll down to find out more about how our mentor faculty and coaches can help.

Clients often engage a coach during a time of change or when they want to achieve a particular goal in the most efficient way. Our services are designed for individuals and teams looking for fresh perspectives on personal challenges and opportunities, enhanced thinking and decision-making skills, enhanced interpersonal effectiveness, and increased confidence in carrying out their chosen work and life roles.Here is an overview of our services. Please use the links below for the details of the individual programs.

Bert Phipps

Consulting Ltd.

As an Associate at Ingrid Bergmann and Associates, Bert offers both one-on-one sessions and team workshops using the Lumina Spark and Lumina Leader assessment tools. Since joining IBA, a major focus of Bert's has been Narrative 360's for public and private sector senior leaders.

Through Bert Phipps Consulting Ltd., Bert draws on his many years of experience to offer Executive Mentoring for senior leaders. He also utilizes his intuition, sensitivity, investigative and report writing skills to carry out interview-style reviews of stressed and troubled workplace environments. ​Bert can be reached at bphippsconsulting@gmail.com or at 250-896-3748. ​

George Abbott, President

Bob de Faye

Chris Trumpy

Circle Square Solutions is a full-service policy and governance consulting firm founded in 2013 and based in British Columbia. It brings together a unique blend of political, administrative, business, academic and research experience. Cumulatively, our team has many decades of experience at the most senior levels of government and business.By bringing diverse individual talents together in a dynamic collaborative team, Circle Square Solutions provides cutting-edge and innovative strategies to meet your needs. As leaders for many years in our respective areas of expertise – ranging from Education and Health to Finance and Economics, from Municipal Affairs and Aboriginal Relations to Sustainable Resource Management – we’ve been confronted by many complex challenges and have developed effective solutions to resolve them. If you face a complex public policy question with no easy answer, we believe our team’s knowledge, practical experience and creative thinking can work for you. www.circlesquaresolutions.com/

Lynda’s passion is to leave every individual and every team that she engages better equipped to meet complex challenges and better able to realize ongoing success. Her clients at Tarras Coaching & Consulting value that she listens beyond words to understand the complexity of the issues they face and partners with them to shape solutions that they are able to commit to and successfully implement. Tap into your own wisdom, tackle your toughest challenges, create better relationships and gain more confidence as a leader. Get in touch for a complementary coaching session to explore your greater potential. lynda@lyndatarras.com 250-812-6450

David Loukidelis QC _______ ​Privacy & Information Law

David Loukidelis QC, a lawyer for over 30 years, advises government clients across Canada on a range of public administration matters, with a focus on ethics, lobbying, privacy and access to information. He can be reached at david@loukidelis.ca. You can find out more about David at www.loukidelis.ca.

Cairine MacDonald offers mentoring and general advisory services to leaders in senior public sector roles across Canada. Enquiries welcome. cairinemacdonald@shaw.ca

“It is a rare opportunity to access such a well-structured series on leadership in the public service, not just the theory we see in typical programs, but the practical and exciting/gritty reality of what public service leadership is really about.”​​David Morhart​Former Deputy Minister, Service Alberta, and,​Past President, Institute of Public Administration of Canada.